Chaconne in G Major with 21 Variations

One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius, Elgar, Enesco, Mahler and Schoenberg. A student of Liszt (and one of the teachers of Rachmaninoff), Siloti is a central figure in the development of the great age of the piano virtuoso. As with many of his colleagues, transcribing and arranging existing music for the piano was a major part of Siloti's activity, and since he madeno recordings, his published transcriptions are one of the few existing keys we have to his musical taste and philosophy. In an extended biographical essay, Dr. Charles Barber explores this issue and writes cogently about the style and influence of this remarkable man. The Alexander Siloti Collection is dominated by Siloti's remarkable transcriptions and arrangements of the music of J.S. Bach, notable particularly for their pianistic character and faithfulness to the unique genetic code of Bach's design. Some of the Bach works included are: Prelude in B Minor, BWV855a, Gigue from Suite in Bb Major, Chaconne in D Minor, the Organ Preludes in E Minor and G Minor and the celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565. Music by Gluck, Mozart and Chopin is also contained in this generous compilation of pianistic wizardry. This addition to The Master's Collection is likely to be one of the most talked about piano folios of the year. (288 pages, smythe sewn binding).Prelude in B MinorAdagioAirChaconne in D MinorGigueAndanteFantasia in C MinorOrgan Prelude in E MinorParaphraseOrgan Prelude in G MinorPreludePrelude from Cantata No. 29Prelude from Cantata No. 35SicilianoToccata and Fugue in D MinorMelodyVariationsVariations in F MajorEtude No. 25 in F MinorScherzo in B-flat MinorAu bord d'une sourceAu lac de WallenstadtConsolation No. 3 in D-flat MajorConcert Etude in D-flat MajorSposalizioIl PenserosoSursum CordaLe cygneHumoresqueTheme original et variationsA Song of IndiaFour Russian Folk SongsFour Russian Folk SongsFour Russian Folk SongsTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesNo. 3. On the Beautiful Blue DanubeTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesEtude in C-sharp MinorPoemeRomanzePrelude in G-sharp Minor / Piano / Carl Fischer

A Centenary Tribute to Holst's First Suite in Eb-En 1909 Gustav Holst composa une œuvre audacieuse et novatrice la Première Suite en Mib Majeur op. 28 n°1 (First Suite in Eb major Op. 28 No. 1) une suite exclusivement écrite pour instruments à vent. À l?occasion du centenaire de cette pièce devenue un classique du répertoire pour Orchestre d?Harmonie Jacob de Haan a composé la Memorial Suite en Ut mineur. Cette composition en quatre mouvements fait référence aux qualités stylistiques de l?œuvre de Holst tout en s?appuyant sur le langage sonore et l?écriture caractéristiques du style de Jacob de Haan. Le résultat est original.Comme Gustav Holst Jacob de Haan a choisi d?ouvrir sasuite avec une chaconne une forme de variation contrapuntique (à l?origine une danse espagnole à trois temps) dans laquelle un thème revient de façon récurrente accompagné à chaque fois par un nouveau contre-chant. Ce thème ostinato est utilisé de différentes manières tout au long des quatre mouvements assurant ainsi l?unité de l?œuvre. Le second mouvement est un scherzo. Par sa progression et son caractère il s?apparente à l?intermezzo central de la suite de Holst. Le troisième mouvement Song Without Words (Chanson sans paroles) porte le même titre que le second mouvement de la Deuxième Suite en Fa op. 28 n° 2 (Second Suite in F Op. 28 No. 1) composée par Holst en 1911. À mi-chemin de ce mouvement très expressif apparaît un solo de saxophone alto. Jacob de Haan conclut son œuvre par une Marche comme le fit jadis Gustav Holst.

Here for the first time in a popularly accessible edition are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition including eight 'Great Suites' and 'Fugue In A Minor'. For this new edition the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces 'a Protean Fluidity' (New Grove) worthyof the great composer and more than worthy of any musical library.